I had been working on window treatments for the Willowcrest 2nd floor bedroom a few weeks ago (in the first pic you can see how I was dremeling out a channel in the floor to run the wire under the carpet)--

--but the color just didn't seem right for the wallpaper. I figured I needed something more wine-y. So I used the curtains in the Buttercup where I think they do alot better:

You can also see that I have been gardening a bit-- still needs some grass sprinkles and a couple flower pots. This little house is just about done! I took some pics w/o flash which, though yellow-y, give a better impression of the true colors.

I worked on the Willowcrest front door also-- front doors have always been difficult for me which is why they tend to get put off until towards the end, but I do enjoy them once they're installed! You might be able to make out in the Buttercup above that I kind of cheated with the door hinges-- real doors don't have the hinge part on the door frame parallel to the wall face-- but I couldn't cheat for the Willowcrest because there is no getting into that foyer space to do much of anything. So I had to install them something like the correct way, which means dremeling out little insets on the frame and the door pieces for the hinge parts to sit. I installed all the nails, doors and frames, which involved a fair amount of contortion and a few different kinds of plier (basically, whatever worked for a particular angle I was in!), and I am happy to say that the doors open and close now (though they won't close together- there's a trick to it!).

I still need to touch up the edges there. I also finished the bay draperies in the parlor-- I made an angled pelmet to fit the angle of the bay, with runners to cover the angle splits in the pelmet, and more of caseymini's tassels.

Now that I have gotten my wine-colored fabric (made an "emergency" trip to Joann's the other weekend!), I can concentrate on those bedroom draperies-- still thinking about the design, though...